The mystery of THE WAPSHOT WHATEVER. Only Programs and Users know. Intriguing Tues 5/1 http://dixonplace.org/performances/the-wapshot-whatever-the-secret-lives-of-computer-programs/
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The mystery of the THE WAPSHOT WHATEVER. What does a cat meme, a desk top of strange icons, a MacLaren stroller, and an orgy have in common? Programs and Users know...Find out
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Codi McGarry is an amazingly creative and intrepid designer,
undaunted by the most insane requests for projections, animation, sound.
Can you make individual icons for characters and put them on a projection of a desk top? What about talking encyclopedias? She can do almost anything, and if it doesn't work the first time....it will soon!
If you don't yet have a ticket, TUESDAY May 1st is right around the corner.
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The Wapshot Whatever's Fearless Director Vincent Santvoord and subjects (Chelsea Rodriguez, Lauren Elizabeth, Nate Taylor-Leach and me) @Dixon Place last night. May 1st is creeping up...
WAPSHOT Spotlight today on Chelsea Rodriguez!
Chelsea Rodriguez is a transformative performer with uncanny grace. She plays both an earthy data miner and a mystical Repair program enmeshed in digits in THE WAPSHOT WHATEVER.
Modern dancer, choreographer,drag performer, she's performed with Street Cirque’s Boudicca and Newly Human Productions. Ballerina Bizet is her stage name for gender fluid drag.
Here in rehearsal,Chelsea, Lauren, Nate.
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Lauren brings circus to her interpretation of THE WAPSHOT WHATEVER's smiley Appbook program and mystery to the role of a certain Off Shore Server. May 1st Dixon Place
THE WAPSHOT WHATEVER: The Secret Lives of Computer programs -Extraordinary actor Nathaniel Taylor-Leach!
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Nate is actually playing 3 programs - a random dialler worm, a cleaning program and a porn switcher.
Both both actor and educator, he's a member of the sketch comedy troupe Dinner For One which appears at the People's Improv Theater. And he teaches acting at the Neighborhood Playhouse Jr. School.
4/9- Rehearsal
St. Veronica's dance school, site of rehearsal, had ballerinas last night; also Flamenco. We got their white green room. Script's got intricacies but director teased them out and it was an insighful time. Show's taking shape with sounds and background images, then animation. Costume designer measured for her painterly treatments. See how tonight goes!
Dixon Place Where else to see sentient Programs and a User shadow world? (60 minutes.)
https://vimeo.com/269716307 (Inquires about this play, comments)
Dixon Place Presents: THE WAPSHOT WHATEVER: The Secret Lives of Computer Programs
Featuring: Chelsea Rodriguez, Lauren Elizabeth, Danny Tay, Nathaniel Taylor-Leach
http://dixonplace.org/performances/the-wapshot-whatever-the-secret-lives-of-computer-programs/ 161 A. Chrystie St, NYC 10002 (Bowery &2nd Ave.) (212)219-0736 $15 in advance, $18 at door, Stu./Sen./idNYC $12 in advance, $15 at door
Projections! Shadow User World, Programs run amuck!
ABOUT THE PLAY
The Wapshot Whatever: The Secret Lives of Computer Programs creates the twilight look and feel of internet imaginings and the electronic landscape. The story begins with a stray Rogue program and commercial Off Shore server bundled together who merge in ways unplanned by their creators. In this lingo play, programs bear traces of their human origins yet are inhuman. Owners outside their box are shadows that interact, a shock of worlds within worlds in this dark and funny play. Come on May Day, if you're in NYC. It's an early show. 7:30
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Chelsea Rodriguez, modern dancer & drag performer, has performed at Dixon Place, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, The producers’ Club, Joyce SoHo.
Nathaniel Taylor-Leach, actor and theatre educator, is a member of the sketch comedy troupe, Dinner For One, from May appearing monthly at the People’s Improv Theater.
Lauren Elizabeth, actor, director, performer, heads her own production company, Street Cirque, which combines traditional stage and circus.
(collaborator) Sara Minisquero, actress, director, stage manager performed in Regeneration Theatre’s AS IS in February and She-Moon at The Muse, Brooklyn.
(Director) Vincent Santvoord is co-founder of the Brooklyn based theater collective, Built for Collapse and Motel Room Studios.
(playwright) Susan I. Weinstein‘s plays have been produced by A.C.T., at The Harold Clurman Theater, read or performed at The Public Theater, Trinity Rep & Truant Arts. Her adaptation of The Little Mermaid was performed at Toykraft in Williamsberg. She is the author of The Anarchist’s Girlfriend.
THE WAPSHOT WHATEVER: The Secret Lives of Computer Programs
SCRIPT EXCERPT
Setting: Stage lit with white light. A vaguely human appearing form in black coat, covered in computer wires. As it walks and rants, small lights go on amid electronic pops.
Time: Infinite now
ROGUE PROGRAM
The wapshot legend has broken down. For whatever am I going to the office, barely paid so wolf's at the door blowing me down--chomping mouth says you can't make it. Try as you might little piglet, you're another sausage for the gin mill, the spirit mill.
ROGUE daintily sits crosses legs, sits on floor.
We want authenticity in pre-packaged tinsley lives that have no real people in them. We want escape. Celeb glamour, see pretty people have flaws unlike you whose whole life is a flaw. So says….
ROGUE wonders answer to this and stands to ponder.
Have not, whap nut. Am I a homeless geek, a sexy disadvantaged youth, a sad-eyed girl from the homelands? I am also no corporate executive or a hybrid working girl, middle-aged muse. Whatever! Provocateur. Dark panicky incoherence of a rogue program in the universal computer. A home in every port. My sweethearts upload me and never know I look into the hearts of their on-line anxieties, searches, and blogs pursuing content. I'm the nebulous nothing of information technology when everything is present.
ROGUE sighs sadly
I love a little fool server off the Aussie coast. She serves island hoppers, giving weather warnings, hurr and him-a-caines coming to a shore near them. She's a dear one…
Rogue pushes switches on himself. Out comes a petite server program, wearing a white suit with black blinking wires. She talks in proud bursts.
SERVER PROGRAM
Aruba, the Canaries, Singapore, Florida Keys, Sardinia, Manhattan Island. Day or night I'm the bellweather, the urgent voice with updates on Calvin or Marie, Andrew and Elizabeth. I see the Eye approaching, gangway, flee cars, houses. Find cellars! Shivery, underground they heed me or, or too late clinging to palms, losing grip, are blown out to sea. .
Dixon Place Where else to see sentient Programs and a User shadow world? (60 minutes.)
https://vimeo.com/269716307 (Inquires about this play, comments)Dixon Place Presents: THE WAPSHOT WHATEVER: The Secret Lives of Computer Programs
SCRIPT EXCERPT
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